How to speak Spanish?
Apr 17th, 2008 by admin
The leaning of Spanish language begins with learning Spanish characters. Spanish alphabet is a mixture of Latin and Arabic languages. In general Spanish alphabet consists of Latin letters, but there are some differences:
some vowels are used with accent in certain cases.
letter ñ, with tilde: ñ and n are different letters.
also there are two letters ch and ll which are diagraphs.
As for pronunciation of the letter, some of them sounds similar to English letters, like letter C can be read like [k] or[s]. But these some differences as well. For example letter J is read [h], letter Z like [s], letter V like [b]. Usually stress is put on the last syllable of the word. But if there is an accent in the word, then stress is not on the last syllable.
At first sight it may seem that Spanish language is difficult and has mane various peculiarities which is hard to learn and remember, but the best way to leant all these moments is a little of conversational and writing practice.
Aldo it is possible to find a lot of material in Internet which can help you simplify the process of learning Spanish.